"Whistling" or "screaming" arrows (shaojian) made by the horseback archers of the steppes were described by the Chinese chronicler Sima Qian in about 100 B.C. A small, perforated bone or wood sound chamber—the whistle—was attached to the shaft behind the arrowhead.
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it hits the target.
Wondering what we could learn from this discussion of the arrow's flight about kairos, which (I learned from Bodily Arts!) once named a mark or an opening in the body where the body might be vulnerable to penetration by an arrow.
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